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Scars / Juan José Saer ; translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph.
Van Pelt Library PQ7797.S22435 C513 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saer, Juan José, 1937-2005.
- Standardized Title:
- Cicatrices. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : Open Letter, [2011]
- Summary:
- Juan Jos Saers Scars explores a crime committed by Luis Fiore, a thirty-nine year old laborer who shot his wife twice in the face with a shotgun; or, rather, it explores the circumstances of four characters who have some connection to the crime: a young reporter, ngel, who lives with his mother and works the courthouse beat; a dissolute attorney who clings to life only for his nightly baccarat game; a misanthropic and dwindling judge whos creating a superfluous translation of The Picture Dorian Gray; and, finally, Luis Fiore himself, who, on May Day, went duck hunting with his wife, daughter, and a bottle of gin. Each of the stories in Scars explores a fragment in timebe it a day or several monthswhen the lives of these characters are altered, more or less, by a singular event. Originally published in 1969, Scars marked a watershed moment in Argentinian literature and has since become a modern classic of Latin American literature.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Spanish as Cicatrices [Buenos Aires : Editorial Sudamericana, 1969]"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 1934824224
- 9781934824221
- OCLC:
- 730404351
- Publisher Number:
- 99948695272
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